Industrialization: Molding A New World

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What resources contributed to the beginnings of the Industrial Revolution in Great Britain?

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coal and iron ore.

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The term domestic system refers to

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work performed in a person's home rather than in a factory

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As a result of Great Britain's forests being cut down in the eighteenth century,

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coal replaced wood as an important source of energy.

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During the 1700s, Britain

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placed more importance on factory owners than on farmers.

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Of the following:flying shuttle.spinning jenny.water frame. cotton gin; the first invention was the

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flying shuttle.

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The contribution that James Watt made to the Industrial Revolution in Britain was that he

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improved the steam engine for use in British textile factories.

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Of the following pairs of inventors and inventions, which one is matched correctly?

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Edmund Cartwright; the power loom

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One fact concerning factory workers in the nineteenth century is

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sick workers received no pay.

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. Alessandro Volta and Michael Faraday are associated in the field of

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electricity.

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The work of Henry Bessemer greatly influenced the production of

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steel.

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What limitation is placed on child labor in the United States today?

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Children under age 16 cannot work during school hours.

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The rapid population increase during the eighteenth century was probably most influenced by

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the increased availability of food.

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After the turmoil caused by the early years of the Industrial Revolution, this period in history helped

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raise the standard of living.

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Textile manufacturers in England during the 1700s and 1800s preferred to hire women and children because they

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worked for lower wages.

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The Combination Acts, a series of English laws repealed in 1824,

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outlawed unions.

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During the Industrial Revolution, the population of England

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increased faster in urban than in rural areas.

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During the Industrial Revolution, entire families went to work in English factories mainly because

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wages were too low for a family to survive on only one or two incomes.

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One of the greatest obstacles that prevented workers in the 1700s and 1800s from improving their working conditions was that

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unions were outlawed in most countries.

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The Factory Act of 1833 applied only to

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children.

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The fact that air is a mixture of gases was discovered by

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Joseph Priestley.

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What were some improvements in nineteenth-century medicine?

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the use of antiseptic to kill bacteria in hospitals/. the discovery of germs and bacteria/immunization with vaccines.

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Gustave Flaubert's novel about a woman's middle-class life is entitled

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Madame Bovary.

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How can one describe nineteenth-century music?

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Music became more powerful and often drew upon nationalist themes.

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Charles Dickens, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, and Emile Zola were

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associated with Realism.

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In the 1800s Eastern Europeans began developing pride in their native cultures and customs as a result of the

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appeal of customs and cultures from other countries.

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What minorities in and outside of Germany were German nationalists, as a "superior race," concerned with?

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Jews within Germany and Slavs outside of Germany

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During the late 1800s, racism as a feature of extreme nationalism was based on

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Social Darwinism.

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During the late 1800s in France, the danger of extreme nationalism and racism was exemplified by

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the Dreyfus Affair.

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What group viewed machines and natural laws as excluding the importance of humans from the world?

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Romantics.